Why Talk Of Amending Second Amendment Is Beyond Stupid

By Tom Knighton

From time to time, some gun control supporter will start off by saying something like, “I support the Second Amendment, but…”

Of course, the moment they say the word “but,” most gun rights advocates brace themselves for the inevitable call for restricting people’s Second Amendment rights. There are exceptions, but not many.

While we routinely call any gun control measure an attack on the Second Amendment, there’s been a growing movement that really is trying to attack the Second. Some want to repeal it. Others want to change the text so that it specifically allows gun control to pass Supreme Court scrutiny.

A revised Second Amendment could spell out the relationship between public safety and private rights in more detail. It could give clear safeguards for people with no history of legal trouble or mental instability to continue to own guns while giving more authority to the government to guarantee that only people unlikely to misuse guns would have them. The precise details would have to be worked out through negotiations, but the general approach — rights for safe users, prohibitions or heavy regulations for others — could work.

Critics might argue that the prospects for success are …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms